Example sentences of "it take a [adj] while " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think it takes a long while for The Wedding Present to build up trust in someone . |
| 2 | but you know , it takes a long while to get over it |
| 3 | Sometimes it takes a little while to realize you really have lost interest in something , I said to him . |
| 4 | It takes a little while for an author to realize that his book has been a complete failure . |
| 5 | Ultimately one admires its naturalness , its ability simply to relay the balance and range that Rattle has fashioned from the podium ( or so it seems ) , but it takes a little while . |
| 6 | The above may be so , but it took a long while for anything significant to happen to the share price . |
| 7 | If people told me that was all well and good but if they did n't , but I did hear about this erm er she did the operation on the girl who er who could n't get rid of her baby , and then it , she lo she sent she sent a telegram to her husband or a letter er it took a long while to come from the Far East , he was in the Far East . |
| 8 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 9 | It took a little while to dispose of the competition . |
| 10 | Again it took a little while for them to calm down and when they had , Bartlemas , with mock solemnity , handed the envelope to Jacqui . |
| 11 | His proud father , also called Thomas , said today : ‘ It took a little while for us to realise what he had done . |